Does your grant support travel for GRAs or undergraduate students? Here are a couple of options for supporting their travel costs that don’t require your students to pay for costs out-of-pocket: Getting a CU Travel Card: CU employees, including GRAs and undergraduate research assistants, are eligible to receive a corporate liability Travel Card. Your grant… Read More


If you have a P-Card and you have a trip coming up, please take a look at your P-card transactions in Concur and get them submitted before your trip. If you’re travelling to a location where internet access is unreliable, please send an email to Aly Nahum, the CIRES Property & Purchasing Manager, within two… Read More


CIRES Finance is excited to announce the hire of Meghan Henderson. Meghan will assist with travel approvals and reimbursements, purchasing, and post-award management.  Meghan most recently worked at an educational non-profit organization. We are in the process of training Meghan but you’ll begin hearing from her soon.… Read More


Update (1/9/2020): OIT was able to get the network back up and running. Please be aware that CIRES IT was ready to make changes to infrastructure this morning if the outage continued, in order to bring back InsideCIRES and the CIRES data feeds. Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience that… Read More


Beginning on January 6, 2020, the Procurement Service Center (PSC) will allow travelers access to book international flights through Concur. After your trip request has been approved, you may book your international airfare through either Concur or Christopherson Business Travel (CBT). There is no cost for booking international travel through Concur; international travel booked through… Read More


Dear Colleagues, The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) has seen a rise in fraudulent unemployment claims attempting to exploit the overall increase in unemployment insurance claims associated with COVID-19. This widespread fraud scheme involves unemployment claims filed using another person’s identity. Many victims are alerted to this identity theft by receiving a U.S. Bank ReliaCard in the… Read More


CU Systems Administration offices are closed from December 24, 2019 – January 1, 2020. The CU Systems Administration Offices include the Procurement Service Center (PSC) which reviews and processes all Travel and P-Card Expense Reports, all invoices and payments through CU Marketplace, approves new Travel & P-Card requests, and makes updates to existing Travel &… Read More


There is currently a system-wide issue with Concur, where folks are not seeing the “Travel” tab that allows them to get airfare quotes or book their airfare or make other travel arrangements. This issue is wide-spread across most Concur users at CU and is being addressed. The Procurement Service Center (PSC) does not have an… Read More


The process to change the Approving Official for CIRES PCard holders did take longer than expected, which caused some PCard holders to have to delay the submission of their current PCard report. The Procurement Service Center (PSC) has made it clear that no violation points will be assessed for reports that have unsubmitted expenses at… Read More


When CU Boulder or NOAA campuses are closed for inclement weather, administrative leave is granted to regular employees for their scheduled work hours during the period of closure. When paid administrative leave is granted as a result of a campus closure, the paid administrative leave needs to be entered in the timesheet only for overtime-eligible… Read More